Fontaines travel guide
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Visit Fontaines: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Fontaines is situated in the Vendee department (Pays-de-la-Loire region) in the west of France at 54 km from La Roche-sur-Yon, the department capital. (General information: Fontaines is 360 km from Paris and 540 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Fontenay-le-Comte at 5 km from Fontaines
Popular places to visit near Fontaines: these include Fontenay-le-Comte at 5 km and Maillezais abbey at 9 km.
Fontenay-le-Comte is a listed 'recommended detour' at 5km and Abbaye Saint Pierre et Eglise de Saint Nicolas (Maillezais) is a listed 'religious monument' at 9km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Photos taken within 10 km
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Fontaines, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Fontaines
See France This Way travel guides for Vendee and Pays-de-la-Loire (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Fontaines.
Note that all distances from Fontaines shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Fontaines holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Fontaines (from booking.com and with a great selection of hotels and a best price promise).
For a longer visit popular choices include apartments and holiday rentals. For these we suggest two popular options: holiday villages in France and Vendee gites and villas
Tourist attractions nearby
Below we show places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting Fontaines and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardins du Bâtiment (20km) : Jardins de Chaligny (28km) : La Guyonnière (48km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Vouvant (17km) : Coulon (22km) : La Flotte-en-Re (46km) :
- Religious monuments: Abbaye Saint Pierre et Eglise de Saint Nicolas (Maillezais) (9km) : Eglise de Notre-Dame de l'Assomption (Maille) (10km) : Abbaye Royale (Nieul-sur-l'Autise) (11km) : Eglise de Notre-Dame (Vouvant) (17km) : Eglise de Saint-Eulalie (Benet) (18km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Marans (18km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Fontenay-le-Comte (5km) :
- Grand Site of France: Marais Poitevin (16km) :
Map of places to visit near Fontaines & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Fontaines
Canton: Fontenay-le-Comte
Arrondissement: Fontenay-le-Comte
Department: Vendee
Region: Pays-de-la-Loire
Postcode: 85200
Distance to Fontaines
from La Roche-sur-Yon: 54 km
from Paris: 360 km
from Calais: 540 km
from Nice: 704 km
from Bordeaux: 178 km
from Strasbourg: 687 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 8 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Fontaines): Auzay, Chaix, Doix, Fontenay-le-Comte, Le Poire-sur-Velluire, Montreuil, Saint-Pierre-le-Vieux and Velluire.
Getting here
Vendee is in the west of France. Most visitors arrive by car from a cross-channel ferry port - Saint Malo is convenient at around 3 hours drive. For driving distances to Fontaines from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Fontaines